Archive for the ‘McKinley Thompson Jr.’ tag

* As we mentioned earlier this week, Galpin Ford sold Hank Smolinski two Ford Pintos for use in converting to flying cars. One crashed, ending the project, but the other – which never became a flying car – turned up in 2009 in Southern California still wearing its Galpin paint scheme. CookieBoysToys has the story.

* The Henry Ford this past week presented the story of Ford designer McKinley Thompson Jr. and his Royalex-bodied, Renault R10-based Warrior, a car now in the museum’s collection that Thompson designed and built with the intention of bringing economic prosperity to third-world countries.

* In 2000, seven crated Porsche engines, including four 917 engines, were stolen from an auction associated with the late founder of Pelican Parts, Vasek Polak. As Car Build Index wrote this week, all seven were recovered five years later after, idiotically, the thief tried to pawn off a couple of the engines on Pelican Parts.